Colt Technology Services and PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, collaborated with Clear, a blockchain start-up company, to demonstrate that inter-carrier settlement times can be reduced from hours to minutes by blockchain technology. The scope of this Proof of Concept (PoC) was to discover if the advantages offered by blockchain technology could be applied to make inter-carrier settlements more efficient, reliable, and scalable.

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